Crossword clues for rifles
rifles
- Long guns
- Winchesters, e.g
- Western arms
- Weapons at ranges
- Springfield and AK-47
- Soldiers' weapons
- Snipers' weapons
- Searches and robs
- Remington weapons
- Remington products
- Remington 700s, e.g
- Hunting guns
- Hunting firearms
- Hunters' weapons
- Hunters' guns
- Drill team's arms
- Carbines, for example
- Biathletes' firearms
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "rifles".
Lieutenant in the green jacket of the 95th Rifles moved among the bodies which lay in the stable yard of the plundered tavern.
He seized one of the damp rifles which had not fired, scooped the wet sludge from its pan, and loaded it with dry powder from his horn.
The greenjackets were trained to the skirmish line, to the loose chain of men who took shelter and sniped at the enemy, but on this retreat the men in green formed ranks as tight as the redcoats and used their rifles for volley fire.
More rifles spat, more cavalry fell, then the chasseur officer, instead of pressing the charge home, wheeled his horse away and the two squadrons sheered off to unmask the dismounted men who now opened fire with their carbines.
Some of them seized carbines, others took up fallen rifles, and they fired a ragged volley at the small group of survivors.
The French did not use rifles, preferring the faster musket, but a musket was a clumsy weapon compared to the slow-loading Baker.
British rifles, and the memory of that defeat gave him a new anger which drove him onwards.
French Dragoons, unable to resist using the captured rifles, had proved inept with the unfamiliar weapons.
The quick march of the Rifles was immensely fast and, anticipating the pain to come, the men groaned.
If the rifles had been able to concentrate their bullets into the head of a packed column of cavalry, they might have turned the road into a charnel of screaming horses and bleeding men.
More rifles fired, one bullet going so close to Sharpe that he felt its passage like a thump of wind.
Two rifles fired, more shot from upstairs, then the northern window was darkened as French Dragoons, who had charged about the blind western angle of the house, filled the frame.
Tomorrow the army will catch up with me, and I shall deploy artillery to grind your Rifles into mincemeat.
I doubt if a few ragged Rifles will endanger the future of the Empire.
Vivar hissed a caution against loading the rifles, but Sharpe would not go into the attack with neither surprise nor loaded weapons.